Long-stay Visa Fees Regulations, 2020

L.N. 287 of 2020

FEES ORDINANCE

(CAP. 35)

Long-stay Visa Fees Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 2 of the Fees

Ordinance, the Minister for Home Affairs, Law Enforcement and

National Security with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance and

Financial Services, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these Regulations is the Long-stay Visa Citation and

scope.

Fees Regulations, 2020.

(2) For the purposes of these regulations, a long-stay visa

issued to a third-country national shall be valid for a period of not less

than ninety (90) days and shall not exceed a period of three hundred

and sixty five (365) days.

(Regulation 3)

The fees which are payable for the granting of a long-stay visa

based are the following

(a)

study purpose €70

(b)

any other purpose €100

€0.18

In these regulations, unless the context, otherwise requires

Interpretation.

"border crossing point" means any crossing point between the

territory of Malta and any other state;

"Central Visa Authority" means the Malta central authority

responsible for the implementation of national visa policies and the

provisions under the Schengen Acquis in so far as visa matters are

concerned;

"external service provider" means an enterprise which has been

contracted by the Government to accept the submission of visa

applications and collect the relative fees on its behalf;

"long-stay visa" means a visa as defined in Article 18 of the

Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement;

"Schengen Acquis" means the Schengen Agreement and includes

all other acts building upon it or otherwise related to it, as well as

related agreements;

"Schengen Agreement" means the Agreement between the

Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the

Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual

abolition of checks at their common borders of the 14 June 1985 and

the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen

Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of

the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and

the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their

common borders;

"third-country national" means any person who is not a Union

citizen within the meaning of Article 20(1) Treaty of the Functioning

of the European Union and who is not covered by point 5 of

Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament of 9 March

2016 on a Union Code on the Rules Governing the Movement of

Persons across Borders (Schengen Borders Code).

The fees specified in the Schedule shall be paid at the

offices of a Consulate of Malta in any country where such a

representation is present or at an external service provider where such

a provider is contracted or at the Central Visa Authority or at the

border crossing points, as the case may be.

Fees paid upon application for a long-stay visa shall not be

refundable.

Notwithstanding the fees specified in the Schedule, long-

stay visas are issued free of charge to

(a) a family member as defined in article 2 of the Free

Movement of European Union Nationals and their Family

Members Order; and

(b)

minors under six (6) years of age.

Notwithstanding any other provision of these regulations,

long-stay visa fees, for justified reasons, may be waived by the Central

Visa Authority.

The Fees (Schengen Visas) Regulations are hereby

repealed.